Posts
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The Quiet Update
How groups update when reality moves faster than identity can - or how they don't. AI is just the case study where it's happening fast enough to watch in real time.
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The Principal
Last week I wrote that the pure manager was structurally obsolete. This week ClickUp's CEO explained exactly why - and pointed at what replaces it.
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The Workaround
Brian Armstrong declared the end of the pure manager. He's right. But the pure manager wasn't killed by AI - it was always a workaround.
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The Myth of Non-Determinism
"But LLMs are non-deterministic" is one of the most common objections to AI in production. It's usually aimed at the wrong thing.
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Three Months Without Code
The longest break from the keyboard I've taken since the 1990s. And somehow the most productive stretch of my career.
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The New Programming Language
I just built my first Python app. I still don't know how to write Python.
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Where Engineering Leverage Goes Next
AI is making implementation cheaper. That completely shifts where teams find leverage.
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The Pin Factory, The Copilot and The Agent
Adam Smith's pin factory returns—only now we're spinning up agents instead of hiring workers.
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Less Is More: Claude Code’s Advantage Over Cursor
I love Cursor but I’ve recently switched to Claude Code (CLI) and I can’t see myself moving back anytime soon.